THE WORLD OF DUMRIA

Nowadays science-fiction

Richard Trigaux

Science Fiction in
the way of Jules Verne: with up to date scientifical data, and generous
characters
(continue).
An incredible discovery,
the quantum telescope, allows for detailed observation of planets in
the whole galaxy. Life is everywhere, but only traces of civilisation
remain. Why?

The Missing Planets

In a science Colloquium
in 2081, Steve and other scientists of various countries present their
last astounding discovery: only traces of extraterrestrial civilisations
in the Galaxy, and no actualy existing civilisation. And they just found
why, or more preciselly where they are gone.

Dumria

Some years later,
Steve discovers that the existence of an actually existing extraterrestrial
civilisation had been hidden, erased in all the databases and statistics.
This civilisation just awaits Earth to answer its welcome message...
To avoid Steve to spread this discovery, His wife is hijacked, just
when she is about to finish a spiritual retreat in the Tibetan Amnye
Machen mountain range...

Lokuten

Dumria is
a small planet with a harsh climate, but where the inhabitants, very
human looking, evolved toward a peaceful society where pleasure and
beauty are the main goals, just followed by science and knowledge.
But the merry and free Dumrian civilization is often felt as a provocation
by all the Earthlings who are still dreaming of domination, or by
all who are unable to live without all our «indispensibles»
social structures. From this a certain form of anti-Dumrians racism,
about which the laters have an rather unexpected reaction.

One day, the quantum communication beams are suddenly
cut between the two planets. Oh, only one second, and only telecom
operators notice this, together with the Shedrup Ling University which
owns a private beam. But the problem is that no material object, even
not a black hole, can interpose in the immaterial beam of non-local
quantum telecomunication... So what?

This novel especialy unveil the extraordinary Lokuten, a thing to which
no previous scifi novel prepared you...

The Dumria world in 3D

This world is a scene
of the third book (still a draft) and is a subway station of the Dumria
planetary subway network. This subway hall is a very good pretext to
offer various other virtual destinations (one for now, which shows only
a part of a scene, the calculation mill, on left hand). The painted
vault offers a nice view of a dumrian landscape, and we can see some
characters.

The purpose of these books if basically for fun,
of as much persons as possible.
But a clever fun, with today (2000) science fiction!

The great master of science fiction, Jules Verne,
imagined stories based on the consequences of technical and scientific
discoveries which were, in the late 19th Century, bold but realistic
prospects. This approach resulted in the fact that most of these premonitions
proved true, even if there were technical mistakes in the books.

At that time, physical science was a new exciting field, and also
a very open field, with the discovery of entirely new things: electromagnetic
rays, X rays, atoms, space... so it was legitimate that H. G. Wells
imagined features like the famous green ray of «The War of the Worlds»,
or other «scientific» features which can be found even in the first
Disney's cartoons. More recently peoples like Asimov and others realised
nice pieces of work based on the consequences of robotics, or of strange
mathematical properties of space.

Unfortunately, today physics is a far more closed
field, in the meaning that today theories do not allow for much extrapolations,
and the hyper space or gyrolasers which make the frame of movies such
as «Star War» alas do not appear in physicist's equations: they are
not prospects, but imaginations. They are simply ingredients required
into a movie which is based on space travel, heroism and adventure.
Despite the interest of such movies, there is nothing really new in
Science-fiction since Wells.

However many new things still happened in physics,
mainly in the field of quantum physics, with many very strange experiments,
the most well known being the Aspect experiment. Thus in my own work
I try to follow again the Verne's path, in putting on stage real extrapolations
of real physics of the years 2000, not of 1900. The results are more
interesting than expected, they could even match with «Star War».
Thus I shall not be surprised if specialists undertake feasibility
studies about my idea of quantum telescope, and the OWL telescope
(1999) or the Planetrans (1980) are astounding but real projects.
Some of my ideas such as the thermal converter of the sonic engine
sound so feasible that I think it would be better to describe them
in patent claims, not in novels.

An important feature in Verne's work is that it
often involves fair characters and nice emotions, and even humanly
warm conceptions of life and justice. This also was a concern for great
scientists such as Einstein. More recently, we can find a
description of non-Aristotelian logic in Van Vogt's work, and a spiritual
background clearly appears in «Star War», especially with the Jedi
Order and Masters.

Such spiritual, social or ecological concerns also
appear in my work, and it is not at random. It is essential concerns
at our epoch, and it is the basic purpose of these books to convey
an hindsight in such domains. The past or nowadays spiritual data
I present in these books is real, and the extrapolations such as FAE,
new Tantras of collective obtentions are likely, and also very desirable.

The state of the World I describe in the late 21st
century is optimistic. But this does not come from naively, and I
am perfectly aware that pessimistic, see deterrent futures are also
very real threats, and that the bet is still far of being won. Thus
many authors describe such terrible futures, to point at the dreadful
consequences of our today actions or ideas. I preferred in these novels
to point at the solutions, as well as the technical solutions as the
solutions in the domains of the mind and its consequences: politics,
society, personal happiness.

In former works such as «The Garden of Aeoliah»
I had a very utopian view. I do not deny such an approach, and could
even write one day a continuation to these books, that I like very
much. But in the context of my science fiction novels, I made another
choice, of a pragmatic approach, showing what is within immediate
range in our today Earth society. This is also very useful. Simply
each of these two approaches gives its sense to the other, or better
match with different persons. I clearly discuss this in my book
«General Epistemology»,
in the first part on logic and the second part on epistemology.

Please enjoy reading, and if you feel a good energy
after, please use it for any interesting purposes you may choose.